Welfare Jihad in Europe

Social welfare fraud of the kind perpetrated in Denmark is being repeated throughout Europe.

Because Anjem Choudary's welfare payments are not taxed, his income is equivalent to a £32,500 ($50,000) salary. By comparison, the average annual earnings of full-time workers in Britain was £26,936 ($41,000) in 2014.

A Swedish soldier deployed in Afghanistan said that he was likely to get less help when he came back to Sweden than returning jihadists were.

More than 30 Danish jihadists have collected unemployment benefits totaling 379,000 Danish krone (€51,000; $55,000) while fighting with the Islamic State in Syria, according to leaked intelligence documents.

The fraud, which was reported by Television 2 Danmark on May 18, comes less than six months after the Danish newspaper BT revealed that Denmark had paid unemployment benefits to 28 other jihadists while they were waging war in Syria.

The disclosures show that Islamists continue to exploit European social welfare systems to finance their activities both at home and abroad — costing European taxpayers potentially millions of euros each year.

According to Television 2 Danmark, the welfare fraud was discovered after the Danish intelligence agency PET began sharing data about known Danish jihadists with the Ministry of Employment to determine if any of these individuals were receiving unemployment benefits.

As a percentage of the overall population, Denmark is the second-largest European source of foreign fighters in Syria after Belgium. At least 115 Danes have become foreign fighters in Syria and Iraq since Syria's civil war broke out in March 2011, according to a recent report by the Center for Terrorism Analysis, an agency of PET. The report states:

"CTA assesses that approximately half of those who have gone abroad are now back in Denmark, while a quarter of them remain in the conflict zone. CTA assesses that two thirds of these individuals have been in the conflict zone for more than a year. The remaining travelers are located elsewhere abroad. CTA assesses that at least 19 travelers from Denmark have been killed in Syria and Iraq."

The CTA admits that, "the number may be higher" than 115. The comment is a tacit recognition that it does not know exactly how many Danes have become jihadists abroad.

In April, it emerged that the parents of Omar Abdel Hamid El-Hussein — a Danish-Jordanian jihadist responsible for the terror attacks in Copenhagen in February 2015 in which two people died — have been welfare recipients in Denmark for more than 20 years. Omar's parents received a total of 3.8 million krone between 1994 and 2014, amounting to roughly 500,000 euros or $560,000.

Social welfare fraud of the kind perpetrated in Denmark is being repeated throughout Europe.

In Austria, police arrested 13 jihadists in November 2014 who were allegedly collecting welfare payments to finance their trips to Syria. Among those detained was Mirsad Omerovic, 32, an extremist Islamic preacher who police say raised several hundred thousand euros for the war in Syria. A father of six who lives exclusively off the Austrian welfare state, Omerovic has benefited from additional payments for paternity leave (Väterkarenz).

Austrian police also arrested, in August 2014, nine other jihadists who were attempting to join the jihad in Syria. Their trip was being financed by Austrian taxpayers by way of social welfare payments.

In Belgium, 29 jihadists from the Flemish cities of Antwerp and Vilvoorde were prevented from receiving social welfare benefits from the state. The move came after an investigation found that the individuals had been accessing their Belgian bank accounts by withdrawing money from banks in Turkey, just across the Syrian border.

Per capita, Belgium is the largest European source of jihadist fighters going to the Middle East; up to 400 Belgians have become jihadists in Syria and Iraq.

In Britain, Terri Nicholson, an assistant commander at the Metropolitan Police's counter-terrorism command unit, told the Telegraph newspaper in November 2014 that taxpayers' money was being claimed fraudulently and used by jihadists in Iraq and Syria. "We are seeing a diverse fraud, including substantial fraud online, abuse of the benefits system, abuse of student loans, in order to fund terrorism," she said.

Nicholson added that women were increasingly being used to smuggle welfare money out of Britain to fund terrorists abroad, because they supposedly arouse less suspicion.

In November 2014, for example, Amal El-Wahabi, a British mother of two, was jailed for 28 months for trying to arrange to smuggle €20,000 to her husband, a jihadist fighting in Syria. She persuaded her friend, Nawal Msaad, to carry the cash in her underwear in return for €1,000. Msaad was stopped at Heathrow Airport. The money she was carrying is thought to have come from social welfare payments.

Anjem Choudary, a British-born radical Islamic cleric who lives off the British welfare state, has repeatedly urged his followers to quit their jobs and claim unemployment benefits so they have more time to plot holy war against non-Muslims.

Choudary believes that Muslims are entitled to welfare payments because they are a form of jizya, a tax imposed on non-Muslims in countries run by Muslims, as a reminder that non-Muslims are permanently inferior and subservient to Muslims.

In 2010, The Sunreported that Choudary takes home more than £25,000 ($39,000) a year in welfare benefits. Among other handouts, Choudary receives £15,600 a year in housing benefit to keep him in a £320,000 ($495,000) house in Leytonstone, East London. He also receives £1,820 council tax allowance, £5,200 income support and £3,120 child benefits. Because his welfare payments are not taxed, his income is equivalent to a £32,500 ($50,000) salary. By comparison, the average annual earnings of full-time workers in Britain was £26,936 ($41,000) in 2014.

Although analysts are divided over the question of how many followers Choudary actually has, no one disputes the fact that he is far from alone in exploiting the British welfare system.

British taxpayers have footed the bill for the Moroccan-born Najat Mostafa, the second wife of the Egyptian-born Islamic hate preacher Abu Hamza, who was extradited to the United States in October 2012. She has lived in a £1 million, five-bedroom house in one of London's wealthiest neighborhoods for more than 15 years, and has raised the couple's eight children there.

Abu Hamza and his family are believed to have cost British taxpayers more than £338,000 in benefits. He has also received £680,000 in legal assistance for his failed U.S. extradition battle. The cost of keeping him in a British prison since 2004 is estimated at £500,000.

Fellow extremist Islamic preacher Abu Qatada, a Palestinian, has cost British taxpayers an estimated £500,000. He has also won £390,000 in legal aid to avoid deportation to Jordan.

The Islamic preacher Omar Bakri Mohammed, a Syrian, obtained £300,000 benefits before being exiled to Lebanon. The money was provided to raise his six children, including Yasmin Fostok, a single mother who makes a living as a pole-dancer in London nightclubs.

In France, the government in March 2015 cut welfare benefits for 290 persons identified as jihadists. French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve downplayed the problem. "We shouldn't make a controversy of this subject or allow people to think no action has been taken. We're taking this seriously and will continue to do so," he said.

In Germany, an analysis of the estimated 450 German jihadists fighting in Syria found that more than 20% of them were receiving welfare benefits from the German state. In addition, the 150 jihadists who have returned to Germany are eligible to begin receiving benefits again.

"It should never come to this. German taxpayers' money should never directly or indirectly finance Islamist terrorism. The benefits of such terrorist parasites should be eliminated immediately. Not working and spreading terror at the expense of the German state is not only extremely dangerous, it is also the worst provocation and disgrace!"

Separately, a study by the Cologne Institute for Economic Research found that Muslim immigrants were more likely to be unemployed and living off the social welfare state than any other immigrant group in Germany.

According to the study, 55% of the immigrants from Lebanon are unemployed, as are 46% from Iraq, 37.5% from Afghanistan, 37.1% from Iran, 27.1% from Morocco and 21.5% from Turkey. In real terms, immigrants from Turkey (140,000) constitute the largest number of unemployed. The report said the root cause for the high unemployment rates was the lack of educational attainment and job training qualifications.

In the Netherlands, a Dutch jihadist named Khalid Abdurahman appeared in a YouTube video with five severed heads. Originally from Iraq, Abdurahman was living on social welfare benefits in the Netherlands for more than a decade before he joined the Islamic State in Syria. Dutch social services declared him to be unfit for work and taxpayers paid for the medication to treat him for claustrophobia and schizophrenia.

Meanwhile, city councils across the Netherlands are attempting to help rather than to prosecute returning jihadists. In the city of Delft, for example, local politicians are using taxpayer money to "reintegrate" jihadists and to help them "rebuild their lives." Dutch public television explained it this way: "The idea is that the local authorities do not want to alienate the returnees by means of a repressive approach which might lead to their further radicalization."

Separately, several Dutch-Moroccan organizations sent a letter to the Labor Party (Partij van de Arbeid, PvdA) in which they threatened to urge Dutch-Moroccans to stop supporting the party if it agreed to a proposal by its Minister of Social Affairs, Lodewijk Asscher, to cut social welfare payments to Moroccans who do not live in the Netherlands. Asscher accused the organizations of using an "improper electoral threat."

In Spain, police arrested five Muslims in the Basque Country who allegedly pocketed the social welfare payments of Redouan Bensbih, a Moroccan immigrant killed on the battlefield in Syria in March. Despite his no longer living in Spain, Bensbih continued receiving monthly payments of €836 euros ($920), which the suspects are accused of having wired to Morocco.

Meanwhile, a network of more than 250 butcher shops, grocery stores and telephone call centers was accused of financing the Islamic State and al-Qaeda. The network used the so-called hawala system — defined by Interpol as money transfer without money movement — where money is transferred through an informal and virtually untraceable system.

According to the El País newspaper, "the secret hawala network in Spain is comprised of about 300 hawaladars — the majority of them Pakistanis — who run clandestine offices in Barcelona, Tarragona, Lleida, Bilbao, Santander, Valencia, Madrid, Logroño, León, Jaén and Almería, and other cities with large Pakistani communities." They manage the savings of over 150,000 Muslims, many of whom are believed to be receiving social welfare payments from the Spanish state, without any legal oversight.

The network allegedly paid the salaries of Spanish jihadists in Syria: They received about $800 if they were single and $1,200 if they were married.

In February 2015, a Pakistani couple residing in the Basque capital of Vitoria was accused of falsifying identity documents to fraudulently obtain social welfare payments for ten fictitious individuals. The man was receiving six different welfare payments and his wife was receiving four. Each welfare payment was between €6,000 ($6,600) and €10,000 ($11,000) per month. Police say that over a period of three years, the couple defrauded the Basque government of more than €395,000 ($453,000).

The Basque Country is known for its liberal social welfare policies; all residents, including illegal immigrants, are eligible to receive welfare payments. In 2012, a massive wave of immigrants from Morocco and Algeria arrived in the Basque Country in order to — in the words of a local politician — "live off of welfare benefits without working."

According to local observers, more than 65% of the immigrants from Morocco and Algeria are receiving benefits. Auditors found that in 2012 alone the Basque Country made €86 million ($95 million) in dubious welfare payments.

In Sweden, the state employment agency, Arbetsformedlingen, terminated a pilot program aimed at helping immigrants find jobs. Information had emerged that Muslim employees at the agency were helping jobseekers find jobs as jihadists for the Islamic State. Operatives from the Islamic State had also allegedly bribed — and in some cases issued death threats against — agency employees in efforts to recruit fighters from Sweden.

Also in Sweden, the government said it wanted to impose a special tax to finance a jobs program for returning jihadists. The project is based on a scheme in the Swedish city of Örebro, where the city is using taxpayer money to help returning jihadists find employment. Town councilor Rasmus Persson said:

"We have discussed how we should work for these guys who have come back, to ensure that they do not return to the battlefield. They should be helped to process the traumatic experiences they have been through."

The project was challenged by a Swedish soldier deployed in Afghanistan, who said that he was likely to get less help when he came back to Sweden than returning jihadists were. Soldier Fredrik Brandberg wrote:

"It would be wonderful if I was met with a comparable program after my homecoming, after which I could feel safe in having a regular job, with monthly income and a social stable situation in the society where I wouldn't need to wonder whether I'm wanted or not."

A spokesperson for the Swedish Armed Forces said that what happens to soldiers upon their return from war was not an issue that fell under its mandate.

Mona Sahlin, Sweden's "national coordinator of the struggle against violent extremists," poses with Swedish soldiers in Afghanistan in July 2010. Sweden's government wants to impose a special tax to finance a jobs program for returning jihadists. Meanwhile, Sweden's armed forces said that what happens to soldiers upon their return from war was not an issue that fell under its mandate. (Image source: Social Democratic Party)

Soeren Kern is a Senior Fellow at the New York-basedGatestone Institute. He is also Senior Fellow for European Politics at the Madrid-based Grupo de Estudios Estratégicos / Strategic Studies Group. Follow him onFacebook and onTwitter.

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31 Reader Comments

D.karch • Jul 21, 2015 at 10:12

After reading several of your articles, there appears to be a pattern of abuse of the welfare systems, unemployment compensation, the education systems, and the justice systems of many EU countries by some groups of recent [within the last 20 years] immigrants, through deliberate or unintentional overwhelming of those systems' capabilities and resources. Do you conclude this to be deliberate, or unintentional to cause failures, thus to cause failure of the host countries?

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Purushottam Deshmukh • Jun 7, 2015 at 04:13

Mr Soeren Kern's article 'Welfare Jihad in Europe' in crystal clear manner brings to surface and punctures the grandiose claims of the European liberal humanist ideology.

The attitude of the present European leadership towards Islamist Jihadists and would be ones is fully rooted in its age-old tradition of liberal humanism. Hence, no one needs to be flabbergasted at what the European leadership is busy doing. Without clear grasp of what liberal humanism is, critique of this leadership shall continue forever.

The tenets of liberal humanism may be put as under:1) Good behavior is of timeless significance.
2) It is through good behavior one transcends the limitations and peculiarities
of his/her age.3) Good behavior allows one to have communion with what is constant in another
person. (The constant stands for Soul, Atman, Divine Grace and so on). It
implies even if one is a notorious criminal, there is something constant in
him. He/she is never devoid of godly graces.
4) Good behavior is always free of socio-political, socio-historical, or
autobiographical traces.5) One should clearly see that his/her behavior is never tempted by prior
ideological assumptions, political preconditions, or expectations of any
kind.6) Liberal humanism believes 'individuality' as something securely possessed
within each one of us as our unique 'essence.' For example, some the wicked
characters in Charles Dickens' novel undergo a 'change of heart.'

It is against this background, we can say with certainty Europe is victim of its own ideology. The stand taken by the Dutch authorities shocks all of us: The Dutch authorities "do not want to alienate the returnees (from Iraq and Syria) by means of a repressive approach which might lead to their further radicalization." What a vision!

The greatest of Hindu Monks Swami Vivekananda once said: To believe everyone to be good is nothing but the sign of your fears and imbecility.

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Mel. • Jun 2, 2015 at 12:13

It's obvious that Britain and Europe have two choices.

(1) To become Muslim and be re-named Eurabia in two or three generations.

(2) To dump the current Human Rights Act and pay airlines to deport returning jihadists to a selection of countries like Iran, Libya,Turkey, etc.

Willing to take them or not, maybe ISIS will welcome them back.

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Eric Price • Jun 2, 2015 at 06:20

The June 1 victory of the centre right party FPÖ in regional elections in Austria was mainly the result of the endless un-controlled immigration in this small island in the centre of Europe where the ruling Socialist party was afraid to say 'The boat is full' in fear of their country's Nazi past. Citizens pay taxes like mad to pay for immigrants, including terrorists, who they will not even let out of the country. It's a mad mad world here in Austria: no more 'The Sound of Music' and 'White horses'.

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Bill Logan • Jun 1, 2015 at 22:50

Why be surprised? This same process is happening in the U.S. -- Detroit and the rust belt cities have entire ghettos full of Somalis, etc. milking the welfare system. A good friend flew into Detroit and thought he had landed in the Middle East...

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pongidae rex • Jun 1, 2015 at 13:56

In August 1914, Europe followed antiquated mutual defense treaties of another historical era off a cliff into WWI. An entire generation of young European men were slaughtered.

Now, a century later, Europe is following antiquated 'human rights' and migration treaties of another historical era off a cliff into social chaos. This time, Europe is literally wiping itself off the map.

What is it with the self hate of Europeans?

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amkzl • Jun 1, 2015 at 12:05

In china, the condemned is forced to pay for the cartridge that executes him. In Europe, the population pays for its own execution voluntarily.

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uzi llowenthal • Jun 1, 2015 at 03:32

I am really sorry to say so....but Europe deserves what it gets. I do hope that Europeans wake up and start defending their culture....without becoming neo-Nazis.....Islam of the non- liberal type may take you to a modern dark age.

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Bernadette de Wit uzi llowenthal • Jun 8, 2015 at 10:58

What do you mean by "Europe", @uzi llowenthal? 28 national governments in the EU have been giving away more power to the EU superstructure year by year. Europe used to be a continent and a common culture, but has been hijacked by the eurocrats in Brussels. The citizens/voters/tax payers' influence has diminished close to zero. More immigration and more Islam is what the EU elite wants for the member states. National boundaries have been abolished. Free movement of persons all over the EU is legal. Needless to say the immigrants from Africa and the Middle East entering Europe will travel to Scandinavia, the Netherlands and Germany, where welfare is unlimited for whoever is supposedly pitiful. Human rights of illegal immigrants and asylum seekers mean: we pay for them. Except for the parties framed as populist and stigmatized as racist by leftist media (i.e. all media), there is no alternative for voters. So please do not suggest this is what the people wants.

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steven L • May 31, 2015 at 18:07

Therefore the name: Eurabia.

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David B. • May 31, 2015 at 14:55

Europeans ... the cradle of Western Civilization ... alone with the USA needs to hunt out and destroy these radical Islamists root and branch regardless of their geographic location. We have become emasculated cowards in this fight. Our enemy has no qualms about fighting and neither should we while we have the advantage. This needs to happen within the next ten years or else we will see Eurabia come true.

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Jeff • May 31, 2015 at 13:38

This is seen by Islamists as collecting the jizya from the infidels in their own lands. If it is not stopped it will only hasten the ruin of the West.

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steven L Jeff • May 31, 2015 at 18:09

The European SOCIALISTS prefer Muslims as allies more than anyone else. They cling to power no matter the cost and their own demise.

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James Mills • May 31, 2015 at 13:21

If all is true in this article it only goes to prove what most people in Europe have know for a long time. That is that the politicians are totally frightened of Muslims. It seems strange that so many Muslims are receiving benefits in Spain when nationals of Member States of the E.U and other States party to the Agreement on the E.E.A. and Switzerland have to meet the conditions laid down in Article 7 of Royal Decree 240/2007 of 16th February 2007 and the Spanish Order 1490 of 9th July 2012. How is it that these conditions which include obligatory documents to be lodged in an Immigration Office or Police Station are not applied to other people?

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steve grant • May 31, 2015 at 13:20

Large central government can NEVER be efficient and without corruption and an endless number of people, who thrive financially upon a plethora of opportunities to scam the system.

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Doug Huber • May 31, 2015 at 12:08

I have run across comments on the net that hundreds of thousands of Middle East refugees are being brought to the U.S. and set up in small towns in northern states, such as Minnesota. All this without any input or warning from the U.S. government. They certainly won't have immediate means of employment, and most probably don't even speak English. It appears obvious that they will be subsidized by the taxpayer's money, so it would appear that they will immediately be recipients of all types of U.S. welfare subsidies. Are they being screened to see if they have any proclivities towards jihadist activities? I seriously doubt it. Makes no difference, however, as they can be radicalized in U.S. mosques and prisons as is already happening. Are we going the way of Europe in this regard? It certainly seems so.

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Kent Doug Huber • Jun 2, 2015 at 05:19

Those at the pinnacle of political hierarchy know darn well what effect these policies wreak. They should all find themselves facing military tribunals for capital crimes, within sane society waking from it's catatonic state.

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AmericanMom • May 31, 2015 at 11:48

How stupid are these countries? Give them welfare for decades and support them while they are beheading innocents in Syria and then welcome them back and fund them upon their return. Nuts. I feel sorry for all the honest hard working Europeans who are having governments essentially steal large parts of their paychecks to give to parasitic terrorists.

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FX MEANEY AmericanMom • Jun 6, 2015 at 08:24

The European governments are already subservient to Islam, paying protection money to keep violence from erupting at home. It's the Mafia approach writ large.

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Dieter • May 31, 2015 at 11:15

Costing European governments millions of euros? Wake up, take a good smell of that morning coffee and get your brain cells working. For the whole of the EU Muslim fraud of one sort or the other, be it unemployment or welfare or housing or the odd second and third wife, it runs into billions every year.

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Bob Smith • May 31, 2015 at 10:52

Europe's answer to all problems since WWII has been more government.

Just one more layer will help straighten this out.

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Sir Algernon • May 31, 2015 at 10:45

Yet more evidence of the implosion of Western liberalism and the capitulation by our "leaders" to those who openly profess to be our enemies. One does not have to be a conspiracy theorist to wonder whether there is in fact a deliberate, if usually unspoken, policy to destroy the West in its current form and replace it with something "Other". I recall Labour's admission that allowing uncontrolled immigration into the UK was a deliberate decision designed to "rub the Right's nose in multi-culturalism". Well, they succeeded in that so I suspect they'll succeed in destroying Western society too.

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Granny Tiger • May 31, 2015 at 10:25

The immigrants and refugees that flood the U.S. from Muslim countries are here because they follow the Quran and are spreading out to conquer the world for Allah. Slow and deliberate, they infiltrate, take advantage of our laws and THE WELFARE STUPIDITY that is destroying Americans as wellas the American taxpayer.

Make no mistake, our welfare is corrupt, rank with fraudulent claims and growing rapidly. And to think that we provide housing, food, medical care, education, etc. to so called refugees, as well as those who come across our southern border at will . . . . . and President Obama thinks global warming/climate change is our great problem. And then he hits the golf course or takes another vacation at taxpayer expense.

Oh what a ditzy world we live in, ditzy and dangerous.

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Linde Barrera • May 31, 2015 at 09:25

When elected representatives of any civilized nation have apathy for their taxpayers and stupidity about parasitic immigrants or citizens, one can grasp the disrespect and brazen impunity of the parasites! Wake up honest, non-cheating individuals. Get your elected officials to lean on your side!

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Fred • May 31, 2015 at 09:20

I always thought the Muslim migrants is a missnomer -- it should be Muslim colonist. No wonder these Muslims colonists flood Europe. One was questioned on TV what he expected from Europe and with no hesitation his response: a house, a car & white girls. How about work? Why work in Europe when you get government money you do not have to work.

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Dennis Trisker • May 31, 2015 at 08:30

Sounds like psychological self-hatred to me. Be generous to those who wish to destroy you while being non-caring to those who assist you. Yes the Europeans need to get their heads on straight. Don't allow the Jihadis and radical Islamist a cent. Remove all social benefits from their wives and children, their mothers and fathers. Don't allow them back in. Let them stay in their run-down feudal Muslim societies! And stop criticizing Israel!

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Aspy • May 31, 2015 at 08:23

I think you Europeans have gone nuts. Worrying about rehabilitating returning Jihadis? At the expense & disillusionment of your returning armed forces personal. This a shame.

Returning Jihadis should be prosecuted as war criminals & sentenced to life at the least. For it is akin to 'aiding & abetting' murder at the least if not committing multiple murders.

When I came to this part (copied below) of your article, well I was appalled to say the least...it borders on lunacy & the formulators of such scheme should be forced to see a shrink with immediate effect.

(Also in Sweden, the government said it wanted to impose a special tax to finance a jobs program for returning jihadists..."We have discussed how we should work for these guys who have come back, to ensure that they do not return to the battlefield. They should be helped to process the traumatic experiences they have been through.")

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Mervyn • May 31, 2015 at 07:57

The ordinary European public have been saying for years that Muslims were milking the system, only to be told that they were irrationally Islamophobic. Well, what do you know, now "officials" are realizing that what the public worked out years ago was correct after all. Finally, they are waking up and perhaps they too will be smelling the same roses we have all this time.

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Esperanza • May 31, 2015 at 07:28

I live in Barcelona. I have a 23 year old son with a mental handicap. He is trying to fund a job, however he has not succeeded yet. My ancestors are all Spanish. They have shed their blood for Spain in past wars. I have paid dutifully my taxes since I started working (29 years). I am incensed when I learn that any newcomer who, maybe, would be happy to slit my throat (and my children's) is getting money from welfare in exchange for nothing.

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Brian • May 31, 2015 at 07:19

This is from the horse's mouth on Arab TV...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nFFq9CkG4k

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Des • May 31, 2015 at 06:44

We worked for 16 years in Spain but cannot claim a pension because of various dodges by the Spanish authorities, who can nevertheless take money from one's bank account for a fine etc. without consulting a court of law. What it boils down to is that Spain has no money to pay the people who worked there (both my wife and I paid €270.00 per month each during our working life there, while the average Spaniard paid €35). Then people who paid nothing draw money and the Spanish government and the EU still find enough to finance the terrorists trying to kill Israelis on a daily basis. Upside down world!

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